Quote Originally Posted by Conundrum View Post
Make more original stuff, and less transplanted stuff so we all experience together without the people who have played every FF since the beginning of time knowing half the story.
We DON'T know the story, though. They take the elements and focus them through the XIV lens and give us something entirely new. Eden might have echoes of VIII, but has a unique story relevant to the XIV universe. And Ivalice has echoes of Tactics and XII, but it follows neither of those stories exactly. Stormblood had huge references back to VI, but nothing how they were used in that game except maybe Phantom Train and the cutscene after it. The thing that makes Endwalker exciting with IV references is just how they're going to incorporate elements but also make it different and fit XIV.